Re your article (Tech firms call for zonal electricity pricing in UK to fuel AI datacentres, 10 February), if artificial intelligence was showing even basic intelligence, it would tell its bosses not to set up in remote areas. AI should be in cities, where the waste heat generated by high electricity usage can be put to good use heating homes. And why should tech firms think they have a right to cheaper power than anyone else?
David Lucas
Bath
Aditya Chakrabortty says the right-to-buy policy “remains in force today” (Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff of 2024, a crisis hidden in plain sight, 13 February). Only in England and Northern Ireland. Scotland ended it in 2016 and Wales in 2019.
Jim McLean
London
When my dad read my school report one year, he could not decipher the comment by the headmaster (Letters, 11 February). At a meeting with the headmaster, it turned out he had written: “John’s handwriting is very poor.”
John Dower
Frodsham, Cheshire
One of my school reports read: “Richard really must stop playing to the gallery.” Wrong again: I became a professional musician.
Richard McNicol
Malmesbury, Wiltshire
Perhaps “joy cometh in the morning” – but not “the bill in the post” . We only get the post in the afternoon, and not every day.
Frank Cosgrove
Presteigne, Powys
In our household, it’s washing till it’s washed, and laundry once it’s clean (Letters, 12 February).
Nigel Turner
London
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